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Ron DeSantis’s Cold, Hard Reality

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Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Updated at 4:40 p.m. ET on January 16, 2024 Even before the caucus began, Matt Wells was working the room. The 43-year-old wore an autographed Ron DeSantis trucker hat as he strolled up and down the aisles of the Washington High School auditorium in rural southeast Iowa, greeting neighbors and passing out DeSantis flyers. When it was time for three-minute speeches, Wells spoke from the podium without notes, his voice quivering with emotion. DeSantis “always backs up his…

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MoveOn Launches “Banned Bookmobile” Tour Distributing Banned Books & Highlighting DeSantis’s Bans and MAGA Extremism

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Washington, D.C. – As reported in Politico today, MoveOn Political Action announced the launch of its first “Banned Bookmobile” multistate tour to sound alarms on Governor Ron DeSantis’s censorship and the rising wave of GOP book bans across the country. The Banned Bookmobile will distribute some of the most frequently banned books as it makes its way through multiple states. The initial bookmobile tour will stop through several communities that have been significantly impacted by MAGA book bans, as well as early primary and battleground states to target DeSantis along his…

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Ron DeSantis’s Joyless Ride

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Real-life Ron DeSantis was here, finally. In the fidgety flesh; in Iowa, South Carolina, and, in this case, New Hampshire. Not some distant Sunshine State of potential or idealized Donald Trump alternative or voice in the far-off static of Twitter Spaces. But an actual human being interacting with other human beings, some 200 of them, packed into an American Legion hall in the town of Rochester. “Okay, smile, close-up,” an older woman told the Florida governor, trying to pull him in for another photo. DeSantis and his wife, Casey, had…

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